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Enrollment
1,055
Elementary
DISTRICT 587 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND VALLEY SD·NCES 420711007645
Winding Creek Elementary School
34 Bali Hai Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 · (717) 620-2525 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,055 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
340 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 123 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 164 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 176 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 183 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 209 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 200 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (123) is 39% smaller than its 5th grade class (200).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.8pp since 2023
Math
58.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.2% | 58.1% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 56.9% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Winding Creek Elementary School
Winding Creek Elementary School's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winding Creek Elementary School this school | 1,055 | 32.2% | 64.4% |
| Gwyn-Nor Elementary School North Wales | 663 | 32.4% | 61.8% |
| Pine Road Elementary School Huntingdon Valley | 628 | 36.8% | 73.4% |
| Silver Spring Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 528 | 30.9% | 67.1% |
| Montgomery Elementary School North Wales | 611 | 18.0% | 74.8% |
| Marshall Elementary School Wexford | 800 | 7.8% | 85.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Winding Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #461 of 1,396 | #11 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #581 of 1,511 ▼ 9 | #16 of 34 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #426 of 1,511 ▼ 82 | #12 of 34 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,055 | #22 of 1,638 | #1 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,365 of 1,528 | #32 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #115 of 1,531 | #4 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #1,299 of 1,600 | #29 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,055
+104 (+11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 18.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,055 | 66.9 | 15.8:1 | 32% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 1,041 | 64.6 | 16.1:1 | 33% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 999 | 58 | 17.2:1 | 29% (294) |
| 2020-21 | 951 | 52 | 18.3:1 | 23% (217) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Winding Creek Elementary School.
About Winding Creek Elementary School
Located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Winding Creek Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school. It educates 1,055 students in kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 138% bigger than the 443 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Winding Creek Elementary School is one school in an 11-school district, Cumberland Valley SD, which enrolls 10,374 students.
White students form the largest group at Winding Creek Elementary School, 42% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 34% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Cumberland County, the White share is about 82%. The chance that two students picked at random at Winding Creek Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
The school reports 66.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.8 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 32% of students. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cumberland County is 41%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Winding Creek Elementary School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Winding Creek Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 64.4%, compared with a predicted 63.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Cumberland County show that median household income is about $87,494, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Winding Creek Elementary School is among the 57 public schools in Cumberland County.
The nearest public school is Mountain View Middle School, at about 0.3 miles. Winding Creek Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 71.1% proficiency; Winding Creek Elementary School posts 64.4%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal counts put enrollment at 951 in 2020-21 and 1,055 in 2024-25, an 11% gain. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2020-21 to 15.8:1 in 2024-25.
The Winding Creek Elementary School community page is open for posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
268,323
Census ACS
Median income
$87,494
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
33,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland Valley SD
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Shaull Elementary SchoolElementary · 591 students
- Sporting Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Hampden Elementary SchoolElementary · 538 students
Other schools in Mechanicsburg
- Cumberland Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,163 students
- Mechanicsburg Area SHSHigh · 1,412 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,403 students
- Mechanicsburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Eagle View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,111 students
- Elmwood AcademyElementary · 712 students
Other Winding Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Winding Creek Elementary. Winding Creek Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Winding Creek ElementaryStafford, VA · 840 students
- Winding Creek Elementary SchoolMoore, OK · 510 students
Nearby schools
- Mountain View Middle School0.3 mi · 1,403
- Shaull Elementary School1.3 mi · 591
- Cumberland Perry Area Career & Technical Center1.6 mi · 28
- Green Ridge Elementary School2.1 mi · 474
- Hampden Elementary School2.1 mi · 538
- Eagle View Middle School3.2 mi · 1,111
Frequently asked questions
About Winding Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Winding Creek Elementary School?
Winding Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,055 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Winding Creek Elementary School serve?
Winding Creek Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Winding Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Winding Creek Elementary School.
How diverse is Winding Creek Elementary School?
Winding Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 42% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 34% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Winding Creek Elementary School public or private?
Winding Creek Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cumberland Valley SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.